Books Quote by Leila Slimani

To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.

— Lucy Grealy

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

— Heather Donahue

When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone…

— Autumn Reeser

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories…

— David Walliams

All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I…

— Burgess Meredith

From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the…

— Alex Ebert

When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he liked he…

— Keith Hernandez

When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I…

— Dita Von Teese

I was a very quiet kid who didn't feel normal being outgoing and running around, so all the beauty that was in my life,…

— Alison Sudol

Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of…

— John Green

It was a very, very happy childhood, but I always knew I wanted to see the world.

— John Rocha